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in new campus construction. Championship athletics. 94% placement within 6 months
of graduation. There’s never been a better time to consider Hope College.

As a member of the MIAA and NCAA Division III associations, Hope College sponsors
22 varsity sports for men and women. The college is home to the 2014 NCAA Division
III National Championship women’s volleyball team.

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Pathways and Programs

Good learning is always moving toward interdisciplinary study because life is not
divided up into subjects like school is. The more you learn, the more connections
you see between your courses.

Certain groups of courses are set up to build interdisciplinary connections around
important topics and areas of study. This page gives you an overview of such pathways
and programs, especially so that you can see how choosing general education courses
early in your time at Hope can get you started in an interdisciplinary direction.
Note that in almost all cases, these courses are not arranged in sequences with required
pre-requisites but are merely grouped by topics and can be entered at any point.

Pathways

With support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grand Challenges Initiative, several teams of Hope faculty are developing courses in multiple disciplines that
address important issues facing the world in which students will live and work. Each
group of Grand Challenge courses includes at least one General Education course. Grand
Challenges pathways planned thus far include:

Programs

Each interdisciplinary program has its own website and section in the college catalog
with complete information about requirements and options. The listings below show
general education courses that contribute to each program.

Sara Wachter-Boettcher, who is author of the acclaimed book “Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms and Other Threats of Toxic Tech,” will present the address “Inclusive Design, Ethical Tech and All of Us” on Tuesday, April 2, at 4 p.m. at Hope College in Winants Auditorium of Graves Hall.